摘要 |
<p>Method and apparatus for evaluating programming used by a programmable processor device (142) in a disc drive (100) to carry out servo control of a head (118) with respect to a rotatable disc (108). The programming is first generated (302) as a series of instructions executable by the programmable processor device. Processor emulation software is provided (304) to simulate execution of the instructions in a computer. A dynamic model of electrical and mechanical portions of the disc drive is generated (306) using plant simulation software. A dynamic linking program is configured (308) to synchronize and transfer data between the processor emulation software and the plant simulation software. All three programs are thereafter simultaneously executed (314) in the computer to evaluate realtime operation of the programming (316).</p> |